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It is not easy to say who had the chief share in inducing the convocation of the southernfrovince at last to take decisive action. he ini‘iative is probably due to the three great New Testament expositors of our time. Dre. Alford. Ellicott and Ligntfoot. well supported by the intelli- once and determination of Dean Stanley. y this time the interest of Nonconform- ists also was thoroughly aroused. Con- ferences were held by eminent members of the Church of Englandwith Dr. Stoughton. Dr.'An s. and other leading Noncomform- lets. be idea of a royal commission. don. Yer; probably it may turn out that these errors ave been exaggerated both in number and quality. Even within the limits of alteration already a ifled, the New Testament will hardly so much changed as many people think. The later at as of the revision have been very much in t 9 direction of restoring what had been questioned : not so much from the inevita- ble conservatism 01 so large a company. as from a further and deeper examination correcting first impressions. A -‘___-_-_. The second reason is based noon certain apknoqledged eyrore in the authorized ver- nsssoss son nsvrsxox. The reasons for revision have during the last twenty years become familiar to all readers. Suffice it to say. confining our attention at present to the New Testament. that the first and chief reasm is found in the im rfections of the Greek text to which :53 translators of the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries were restricted. Since that era the discovery and collection of MSS.. the examination of ancient liter ature bearing upon the subjectâ€"in a Word. all that is comprised in the modern science of Biblical criticism, has led to the adop- tion of a text. not indeed absolute] per- fect. but in accuracy far beyon that which our authorized gersiou represents. Should these principles have been fairly carried out, such feare will at once be laid to rest as that to which. among others, the noble president of the British and Foreign Bible Society gave utterance when pro- testing ten years ago against a “ diluted " and “ Frenchifled " adaptation of Bible language to modern tastes. lVe may say. with some assurance, pending the appear- ance of the book. that this is precisely what has not been done. Nor have the apprehensions of the Archbieho of York been verified that the Bible woulg be “ laid on the table of the anatomist," or “ sent to the crucible to be melted down and recast.” It remains with us in its integrity. retouched and corrected. but with its meaning deepened and its beauty unim- paired. “II. To limit, eatenâ€"lie peels-ible, the expression of such alterations to the language of the authorized and earlier English yeyeione." ' I. To introduce as few alterations as possible in the text of the authormd ver sion consistently with faithfulness. take a brief example at random, in Luke viii. 42-44. we read, “Who now is the dis- creet and faithful stewart whom the master will set over his household. to dispense regularly the allowance of corn ? Happy that servant, if his master, at his arrival, shall find him so employed. I tell you truly. he will entrust him with the manage ineut of all his estates.” Such versions are but a long succession of failures ; and it is in English rather than in Greek that the translators have missed the mark. Happily, the scholarship of our own age has directed especial attention to English; and the genius and resources of our own noble tongue are perhaps better understood than ever before; and one result has been the adoption. by the revisers. of two rules, a consistent adherence to which will have secured the success of their work : The Archbishop of Dublin has gathered some curious specimens of modernised versions. Thus. where our Bible reads. “ Adouble-minded man is unstable in all his ways.” one of these improved transla- tions has “ A man unsteadyin his opinions is inconstant in all his practices ;" and in the same chapter, “ Count it all joy when ye fall into divers temptations," is replaced In another version by, “ Keep yourselves perfectly cheerful when you are exposed to avariety of trials." The late Dr. Camp~ bell. of Aberdeen, whose work on the Gospels (1788) is still read with profit by; scholars. does not offend against good taste quite so grossly, but yet his render- ings serve chiefly to show by contrast the superiority_ of the old diction. Thus to go. Nor is such a demand now made, whatever may have been the casein former times. New translations have been often reposed. and not infrequently attempted. arms the last hundred years; but the protest of instinct and affection is at length seen to be in accord with the soundestjudg- ment; and the New Testament soon to be given to the world isstill the old book, unim- aired in its majesty and music. and with he necessary amendments so inwro ht into the structure that the fabric s ' is harmonious and one. Such, at least. has been the aim of the revisers; we shall know very soon whether they have succeeded. Meantime, it may be useful to remind our- selves that the New Testament of 1611 was itself no more than envision. or rather the result of several revisions, of Tyndale‘s version published eighty-five years before. The aim of the revisers of 1881 has been to do for the version of 1611 what the revisers of 1611 did for Tyndale’s. or rather, for the Bisho ’ Bible, the form which Tyndale’s hagu timately taken. Within the next month or so. the New Testament.“ revised,will be in circulation. Below will be found an interesting article by sleading English divine on how it all come about: It is one of the happiest chsrsoteristics of that great Bible revision. whose first fruits appear during this month. that. by common consent. our own English Scriptures are. in every essentisl feature. to be preserved. No new translation could ever become. to the taith and intelligence* of English-speaking people all over the world. what the old Book has been for more than two hundred and fifty yesrs. For. apart from higher claims to reverence. it is the foremost of British clsssios. Its phrases and turns of expression. even more than direct notation. pervade our entire literature. his choicest treasure of the household end the Church we never can let THE GREAT WORK ACCOMPLIBHED‘ How It We; Found Necessary to Alter the Scriptures. NEW TESTAMENT REVISION. Another 'ear was still to elapse before ‘the completion of the work; not only for those final touches on which an reme excel- lence depends. but- for full an deliberate intercommunication with the American company. which had been working almost through the whole period upon the same lines. So earlv as August. 1870. Dr. Angus. then in New York. had been authorised by letter from the Bishop of Gloucester and Bristol to open negotiations for the forma- tion of an American Committee of Revision. Not until the latter part of the next year were the two companies fully organized. very much on the English plan; the first meeting for the arrangement of preliminaries being held December 7th. 1871; the first for aotivework. October 4th. 1872.} The companies include names of world- best and ‘most directly to communicate that knowledge to the English people. Fitly were the proceedings of the com. panies introduced by the celebration of the communion. June 22nd. 1870. in the chapel of flour \'II.. at the grave of Edward VI. The Bis op of Winchester was the first resident. and after his lamented death the ishop of Gloucester and Bristol succeeded to the chair. The proceedings have been simple and orderly, the rules of procedure being few and explicit. Every important suggestion has been submitted in writing; . the discussion on each several point being full. careful, often animated. but always friendly. The revisers have virtually, though not formally, fallen into place. each being regarded as an authority in his own department. one on textual criticism, another on the discrimination of synonyms. another on the niceties of English, and so on ; while for the final adoption of any change a majority of two-thirds has been necessary. alternative renderings strongly though not decisively supported being laced in the margin. The sessions have 11 monthly. ten in each year. each for four days of about seven hours. During somewhat more than ten years. therefore, 412 meetings have been held :corresponding thus to about a year and aquarter of Work- ing days. to say nothing of the time ivsn to private study in connection Wit the work and in preparation for the meetings. 0n the 13th of December. 1878. the second revision was closed. The place of meeting has been the Jeru~ salem Chamber of Westminster Abbey. a room of many and various associations with historic personages and events. Taking its name probably from the tapestry which once adorned its walls, and which repre- sented scenes from the history of Jerusalem, it long seemed invested with a strange sacredness in the minds of men. It was the death chamber of King Henry IV., as readers of Shakspeare will remember. Here in later days were laid in state the bodies of Robert South, Joseph Addison, Sir Isaac Newton and other famous men. But the ecclesiastical associations of this‘ chamber must ever give it a chief place in our remembrance. It was here (driven in the first instance by cold from the interior of the abbey) that the Westminster Assembly held its sittings for more than five years (16434649.) Here also was con- vened that well~intentioned though abortive conference held in 1689 for the revision of the prayer book with a view to the concilia- tion of Nonconformists. So lately as 1867 another royal commission assembled in the same spot to examine the ritual and rubrics of the Church of England so as to relieve troubled consciences in the matter of sub- scription. But those ancient walls have never looked down upon a work more surely calculated to harmonize the strifes of the Church, and to reconcile divided brethren, than during the long sessions of patient labor in which men of various ecclesiastical relationships and often warringcreeds have been found uniting with one accord in the serious and simple endeavor, first to dis- cover to the uttermost minuteness what 90d-has_spoken, and then to devise how The Committee'for the Revision of the New Testament consisted at first of the Bisho of Winchester, Gloucester and Bristo and Salisbury, with Dr. Bickersteth (the prolocutor. now Dean of Liohfield), Deans Alford and Stanley, with Dr. Blakesley, now Dean of Lincoln. To these, by invitation, the following were added, at first or subsequently, Archbishop Trench, Dr. An , Dr. D. Brown (of Aberdeerg, Dr. E ie, Rev. F. J . A. Hort, Rev. W. . Hum hry, Canon Kennedy, Archdeacon Lee, rofessors Lightfoot (now Bishop of Durham), Milligan, Moulton, Newth, Edwin Palmer, and Roberts. Dr. G. Vance Smith, Dr. Scott, Dean of Rochester; Dr. F. H. Scrivener, Dr. Wordsworth. Bishop of St. Andrews ; Dr. Tregelles, Dr. C. J. Vaufhan, Master of the Temple (now Dean of L andafi’) and Professor Westcott. Dr. J. H. Newman was also invited but declined, and Dr. Merivale, Dean of Ely, resigned soon after his appointment. Of those who entered on the task, Dr. Alford was soon called away by death. Bishop Wilberforce died in 1873, Dr. Eadie in 1876, Dr. Tre~ gelles, who had been unable to attend from the first, in 1875. The rest have uninter- ruptedly continued the work for ten years; the Rev. J. Troutbeck acting as secretary. It should be added that the labors of the revisers have been gratuitous, the heavy necessary expenses of the work being defrayed by the Universities of Oxford and Cambridge, in consideration of the copy- ”241,; risk!“â€" That it is desirable that a revision of the Authorised Version of the Holy Scriptures be undertaken ; that the revision be so conducted as to comprise both marginal renderings and such emendations as it may be found n to insert in the text of the Authorised ersion; and That it is desirable that Convocation should nominate a body of its own members to undertake the work of revision. who shall be at liberty toinvite the co-operation of any eminent for scholarship, to whatever nation or religious body they may belong. . ML- l1-.__.:as_- k-.. L ,.____ H ,n .1 though still favored by some.wu miuylwido tome ss hihlicel oohoxm sud shun oned, end the work wes left to the theol lens. Dr. Philip Bohsfi hsvin been concoction of the province of Cnnterhury;.throu¢ out the lending represents we in thet of York. led by its sccomplished end‘oommunieetion with the British revises-s. leerned nrchhishop. still declining to unite. ‘ As might be expected. there hss been much The first forms! resolution on the friendl discussion between the two subject was moved, we believe. by fooun es. not so much. perhsps. on Dr. Wilberforce. then Bishop offiirectly critiosl metters so on minutin of Winchester. who roposed thst the Style end expression. All these points hove. revision of the New estsment should be however. been utiefsotorily settled. the ‘undertsken, Dr. Ollivsnt. Bisho of Llnn- . two com ice in some few cases “ egreeoi dsfi. immediately taking. “An why not in to di er s" and not the least of the the Old also?" a. suggestion adopted st ievements connected with this greet once. As the result, it committee of ‘ work will hove been the adoption on both bishops nndotherdignitsrieswnssppointed. ‘ sides of the Atlnntic. after 3 century of at whose instance the following resolutions nations] seperstion. of this one hookâ€"the were adopted st a. meeting of Convocetion letsndu'd at once of lsngusge end hithâ€" hold Hey 6th. 1870: . for English-speaking people throughout the That it is desirable that a revision of the world. An Italian couple. Tocci by name. are at present exhibiting at Vienna a moat remark- able specimen 0 their progeny. a pair of twins named Jacob nd Baptiste. These boys are grown together from the sixth rib downwer . have but one abdomen and two feet. The upper part of the body in com- letely developed in each ; their intellectual acultiea are of a normal character. Each child thinke.epeaks, sleeps, eats and drinks independently of the other. This indepen- dence goes so far as to admit an iniiepoei- tion of the one without in the least effecting the other. They are over three yeere old. i in perfect health and seemingly ln encellent ‘ spirits. . l sale _at 10 to 15 cents. but such issues cannot be sold in Canada owing to the steps taken to secure a Canadian copyright. It is stated that an advance copy is now on the way out for a Chicago paper. for which 31.000 has been paid, as a sharp stroke of newspaper enter rise. and that its first publication on t is continent will be in newspaper form. Thou b there will no doubt be a tremendous rue at first tosecure copies, and those who wish to be early in possession of the work will do well to give their orders ahead. yet it is not anticipated that there will be ang difliculty in obtaining copies in any desire style after the first excitement has abated. as there will very shortly be an ample supply for all require- ments. ‘ized version now in use. but there are occasional paragraphs where the sense seems to require It. and the numbers of the verses are given on the margin. There are a few marginal notes where the passages are controverted ones. The typographical execution. so far as can be judged. is excel- lent. It is expected that within twenty- four hours after the issue of the revision some of the American publishers will have cheap paper editions on the market for The leading booksellers are taking agreat many orders for the revised New Testa- ment, specimens of the various styles being displayed at several of the stores as a guide to purchasers wishing to secure early ‘ copies. The price varies from 30 cents for the cheapest sortof bound copy in nonpareil type up to 812 for handsome ica copies in the most elegant binding. T 0 orders are mainly for the medium styles. averaging 1 about 31 to 81.50 per copy. The authorized version from the Oxford and Cambridge University presses will be published simultaneously all over the civilized world on the 17th of May. It is estimated by a leading bookseller that the orders now received from the Canada trade amount to fully 100,000 copies. In order to prevent the work being pirated in Canada, a chea Canadian issue in paper will be publishe by the agents for the Oxford Press and sold for 22 cents. thus securing the Canadian copyright. The specimen pages resemble very much in a pearance the style in which ordinary c assical translations are issued. The text is not divided into verses with a paragraph for each as in the author- me." This contingency, she felt assured, would be averted by means of the associa- tion just formed. and, she added, " If we ladies succeed in this enterprise, who knows but what in time we may be entrusted with the paving of the streets, or even with the cleaning of them.” A meeting of the subscribers to the capi~ tal stock of the Cooperative Dress Associa- tion was held on Thursday afternoon at the company’s oflices, 112 Fifth avenue, New York, to adopt by-laws and elect directors. 1 There were about 150 persons present, ‘most of whom were ladies. Mr. Anthony Fullback, one of the managers. appropri- ately acted as the conservative drag. warning the company not to expect too much at first, while Miss Kate Field took the pole in her usual good spirits. " Returng ing from a somewhat extended residence abroad,” she said, " I found that in this country I could not afford to dress myself and was fearful at one time that I should have to_go forth with a blanket to cover Try to keep a pretty china cup and saucer, a delicate plate and small goblet, to present f food on to the sick. One expert nurse . always serves beeLtea and milk in a wine- glass ; one of the thin. bell-shaped glasses. that hold more than they look to hold. A sick person will turn away from a bowl of soup, and be pleased with a pretty cupful. Sick children. especially. are amused and pleased with the color and pattern of the cups and dishes, and there is a trace of the fretful child in every invalid. There is something tem ting in a small quantity. It does not tax e eye. Therefore, always present juatas little as you judge the invalid wants to see. A coarse white dinneaplate. heaped with food, will take away all appe- tite. while a small plate or saucer, on i- ally if it is a pretty, dainty one, wil be successfuuy cleared. A mauve saucer. or a pink plate. will coax a feverish patient to eat rice pudding or orange cream, or a few grapes, when all other arts have failed, There seems to be an appetite of the eye as well as the stomach, and it must not be ofl’ended. Very often the effort to lift the head, even if persons are not dangerously ill, disinclines them to take refreshing or nourishing drink. There is no need to disturb such sufferers by propping them up with pillows and making them lift their heads and change their position. A bent glass tube, sold for 5 cents at the apathe- cary’s, is not asignal of extreme illness or lowness. exoe t that the head may rest low. It simp y means comfort, and that the invalid need not be disturbed, in a sick headache or extreme fatigue. but can take the beverage provided without a change of position. The art of comfort is not cure, but it goes a great way towards it. (Io-operative Dressing. To Temp: Appetite. 5‘ Ala, und‘ “iii 7 'th'efl 'figllbfilvnfil; “wui-l-lwi; on y examined in museum: an un interest- another flit years, to be entirely eclipsed by electrics ones. The chances are that telegraphs will by that time be as obsolete be are semaphores. beeeoq fires and smoke ”V- __".. -â€".° wuv wan-v. a 6 All this. of course. must seem to be in the for distance. Still, we must remember that science is moving rapidl . that every year sees fresh students an busy brains intent on improving the handiwork of their predecessors. It seems like yesterday since ‘ Oersted was vainly endeavoring to explain to the Spanish Queen Dowager. who died last week. the first glimmering of the electric telegraph. Yet the telephone already threatens to supersede the tele- graph. Men still livmg can remember Sir John Barrow warning his friend George Stephenson not to hurt a good cause by talking foolishly about being able to run a locomotive more than five miles an hour, or of carrying over a " a few hundred" pas- sengers in the course 0! a year. But‘ already coal-driven engines are likely. in __,_A\ ,_ no. soon an aged couple at home may not be able to see on their drawing-room wall an image of their grandchildren playing Bad} minton in India, and of learning from the telenhone how they are enjoying the game. | AL!_ A. That this and a great deal more will come to pass is evrdent to all who can read within the lines of Prof. Perry’s discourse. Sydney Smith. who, like Southey, hada limited appreciation of science, considered that “from electricity and M.P.'s we expected too muc ." In the Siemens elec- tric railway the propelling force is alone sent with the cars, but not the machine for generating that force. A generator of elec- tricity is driven by a large stationary: engine somewhere in the vicinity of the railway. A motor on acarriage receives electric energy by the conducting rails and converts this into mechanical work to drive the carriage. The introduction of electric railways is merely a question of capital and the sacrifice of much existing plant. But as soon as this is resolved on there will ; be economy effected, for, as no heav loco- motives will be required. there wilbe a saving in the weight of steel rails, in the cost of bridges. and in the wear and tear of permanent way. And as each carriage wil have its own driving and breaking machinery, the entnergy at press wasted in stop ing a train “ will be simply given back to t egenerator." The problem of lighting and heatinghouses by electricity is practically solved. When people gene- rally avail themselves of that solution, smoke, soot and dirt will desert our murky atmosphere, while the same engine that warms the merchant's oflice will light his . warehouse. enable him to correspond with his agent by word or letter. order dinner, synchronise his clocks. receive the portrait of a suspicious visitor to his country house, call the police, blow the fog horn which is to warn of? the rocks the crew of his home- ward-bound ship. Nor need its use stop there. In time the advantages of elec- tricity will penetrate even the darkness of the vestries. The citizen who tumbles into his electrically warmed bed. with the snow a foot deep on the ground. will wake up in the morningto i toast his toes at the e ectric stove and see dry streets and the beadle trundling home the parish Gramme. Alreadv Mr. Edward Bright in ten minutes de-electrifles ina vacuum his hirsuite bobbins of yarn. instead of, as formerly, allowing nature to do so in half a yearâ€"during which his capital must lie fallow in the factory. Mr. Shelford Bidwell produces ictures of dis- tant stationary objects in s aded lines on paper by electro-chemical decomposition; and Mr. Perry, by taking a hint from Mr. Punch. is by no means certain that very send but portraits. and “manifold" by electricity. but have our houses lighted and heated. our railway trains and tram - cars propelled. and our machinery driven by the same omnipotent agent. If needs be every weaver's shuttle, ever village blacksmith's bellows, every mi - liner's sewing machine, and every advanced baby‘s carriage will be driven. blown or rocked by that "Vrill" power, of whose future development by the coming race Mr. Perry has almost as sanguine ahope as . had Lord Lytton after a less scientific fashion. Coal gas, at which Sir Walter; Scott jeered. and for a belief in which Dr. Chalmers was considered by his shrewd countrymen to be not altogether “soond,” is. we are told. deemed as a lighting agent. In a few years it will subserve to the hum- ble office of agenerator of electricity by setting steam engines in motion. or by being consumed in a voltaic cell. But as power can be transmitted by electricity, there is. as Sir William Thompson once suggested, nothing to prevent us from importing our force from America. just as at present we im rt beef. wheat "canned" aches an wooden nutmegs. 1n the Fals of Niagara there is energy enough to generate suflicient electricity to light and heat all London, drive all the machinery in Birmingham or Manchester. and send a score of Flying Scomhmen with easy swiftness from one end of the king- dom to the other. “ Transmitted energy " will be consigned to us from the Amazon and the Amoor, from the smoke-enveloped “fess” of the Hjommel Sayka, or the tumbling water of the Trollhata. In the future we are to drink. build our houses, ‘ plough our fields and manure them. sail 3 our yachts. propel our steamers and trains. ‘ print our books and perhaps write them by ‘ the aid of electricity. Men will then have ' subdued the forces of nature. and the lord of creation will relapse into manual idle- ness, or dream away life in one long after. noon. until he dies of an overdose of 1 electricity. and is buried in an electric-dug grave, or cremated by a touch of his bereaved family’s private “Perry-Ayrton " machine. ‘ I-ngmae- l'lcenl-l-g Perth the as". well..- Til-[I Iloflrlelly In I. do IOI’ III In Age- le Coneâ€"Pulru- Toward a (lemma 0! lane. (London Mendel-d.) Prof. Perry. et the Society of Arts leet night. peinted a. most alluring picture of the tuture of electricity. Telegrephe. tele- phones. photophonee, phonogrephe. micro- honee and electric pens are the mere Beginnings o! the science. end will. by the time we no too old to use them.be re- gerded with much the same reepecttul interest that Stephenecn'e " Rocket " is viewed by a modern engineer. or Coeter'e “ Spiegel onzer Bedhoudenie." h n memo her of the Tipogrephicel Un on. Bi. end-by, we ehnl not only comepgnd.‘tal . __Â¥j , Ah,A,,_2A_ __Â¥ FUTURE OF ELECTRIC INVENTION. A despateh from Oswego. N. Y.. says: Bishop l'oster.of Boston, who presides over the Northern New York Conference of the Methodist Episcopal Church in session in this city. gave old-style Methodism a gal- vanic shock in his address today to the candidates for admission to the conference. The Methodist revival is an institution as old as the Methodist Church. but Bishop Foster admonished the candidates that “ continued growth is better than an ava. lanche of revivals.“ He also declared that “ ‘getting up revivals‘ is an odious phrase among us. and a disgusting fact." He declared himself tired of Christians who have to be coaxed, and said while emotion is a touching thin , " to see a man snivel and cry is foolis uses." In respect of preaching. he said people will go anywhere where they can get thought, and amen who has nothiLg to say must not expect to have congregations. complaint, and itie easily removed. ana freckles are a sign of health. Court the sun. then. winter and summer. in your room and carrot-doors, for sunshine to the young is vigor. while to the old it is life itse . Sunshine is necessary for health of all animal and vegetable life. No. I will not even except the mushroom, for I am con. vinced that those delicious and succulent agarics that are gathered in the open fields are better flavored and more nutritious than the edible fungi that are forced by artificial heat in the darkness of a cellar. The benefits derived from exposure to the rays of the sun were well known to the ancient Romans. who used to have terraces on the southern sides of their domicilea. l called solaria, on which to walk or seat themselves to enjoy the blessings of fresh ‘ air and sunshine combined. Physicians of the present day are likewise fully alive to the regeneratin efi'ects of sunshine in many cases of ii ness. notably, perhaps, in consumption. In the incipient stage of this terribly fatal diease along sea~voyage southward is an almost certain remedy. Even in our own fickle and changeable climate. basking in the sunshine is of im- mense benefit to the nervous and weakly invalid. as well as to the convalescent from some long, lingering illness. Those who have to work down underground are very seldom indeed long~lived. and they are remarkably subject to debility. That is one fact well worth bearing in mind; and here is another: barracks in which soldiers live. if built so that but little sunshine enters. are never healthy. It has been noticed, also, that in times of epidemic. houses that are freely exposed to the rays of the noonday sun stand a far greater chance of exem tion from the prevalent disease than dot ose that are shaded. Imy. self recollect an instance of the cholera decimating the dwellers on the shady side of the street of a village. and sparing those who lived on that exposed tothe health- giving beams of the noonday sun. With- out. then. actually runnin any risk of sun-stroke. every one shoul endeavor to get as much sunshine as ssible. Some youn ladies are afraid o spoiling their' comp exions. but I do not think the sun does ‘this; sun_ browning is not a deadly us ‘ buckle to.’ We will be dainty and delicateâ€"lovely and leveable if we can. but we will be helpful. useful, hearty and thorough; making it our life-aim notto see how little we can do but how much. The young girl who knows how to manage a brush or a duster deftly and thoroughly, or who can supply the table with whole- some dainties, cook or no cock, is infinitely superior to the one who languidly wonders whether cucumbers grow in slices. or how many hours it takes an egg to boil. At the commencement of her married life a wife should get tounderstand what the settled income is, and from what sources it is derived. Spending is a science which should be conducted with system and method. The young wife who feels she has plenty of money at her command. and who goes on ordering what is wanted. and just paying the bills as they come in, is pretty sure to find herself atlast in debt, and with nothing to pay with in spite of the plenty. Now it seems to me that in ‘ having the care of young children a mother ‘is possessed of almost unlimited power ; the child is in her hands. ready to be moulded and fashioned into an honorable vessel. If through her clumsiness, or through her want of care. she mar or spoil its beauty so that it can never take any but an inferior position in the world, a second place among men. shall she who moulds and shapes it be guiltless? " A lady writes : " It is a common dis- grace to us that so many daughters, full of health and vigor. who talk of loving their mother. at a low her to wait upon them, and dru e for them. so that they may be ‘free to to low their own wills and pleasures. Thank God i I do not believe the day is assing away when our girls will brag and ast of their ignorance of housework. All classes has seen the mischief such ignor- ance and false pride were working. and have conspired to cry it down ; but there is plenty o_f_room forjmproxementAstill. Let ing step in the development of the hate- hone. The lisoons. Newton. oyle. stt. Fsrsdsy. Oersted. Joule snd Thomp- son pointed the wsy to Stephenson. Cooke. Wheststcne. Grsmme. Edison. Grsbsm. Bell end Hughes. The wonders of today msy be only the curiosities of the future. Photogrsphy is. for instsnce. so fsmihsr to us. thst when the sotusl discoverer of thst wonderful srt pessed swsy four esrs 0. his desth wss bsrely noti . sim y becsuse few could imsgine thst sdisccvery. seemingly so old. hsd been the work of men of our generation. Posterity. which hss done nothin for us. is to receive 3 mighty legacy. which it will be expected to trsnsmit without decresse to the geners~ tions yet unborn. Theirs will he s hsppy lot, end one might well wish to live long enough to witness the wonderful century of which some of us msy see the dswn. but the end of which none of us can survive. Yet the men of those dsys may. after ell. :be it thought~reoked. csre-worn recs. The msy be ssved much msnusl toil. then before they can regulste all their meohsni- cal sprlisnces, they will be at people of short ives and wesry brains. But perhs by that time in electricity willbe found t e Alchemist’s elixir of life. or those fountain- of perpetusl youth for which Ponce de Leone sought in vain. All RI. 8. Blnhop on novlv-ln. Bun-lune and Health. Daughter: and Motion.